Biography
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth-century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. Description above from the Wikipedia Charles Dickens licensed ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Christmas Karma
2025
Novel
A story of an Indian who votes for the Conservative Party and hates refugees.

Utshob
2025
Novel
On the eve of Eid, a grumpy, miserly loner Jahangir is visited by three mysterious guests, claiming to be ghosts. As they make him revisit his past, J...

The King of Kings
2025
Novel
Charles Dickens tells his young son Walter the greatest story ever told, and what begins as a bedtime tale becomes a life-changing journey. Through vi...

Merry Moisex
2024
Novel
When Moisex declares his hatred for Christmas, Kevin sets out to change his mind by creating a short film. This documentary captures their journey of ...

Carol
2024
Novel
Self-centered Solomon Lynch takes a journey through his past, present, and future. But it takes more than Christmas spirit to set things right in this...

National Theatre Live: London Tide
2024
Original Story
A storm rages and, in the darkest part of the night, a body is pulled from the swirling river. Across the city, two young women confront an uncertain ...

A Christmas Carol
2023
Novel
A Christmas classic revisited in dance form at the Finnish National Opera: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It's the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a g...
Nae Expectations
2023
Novel
Pip is just your average wee guy – happy with his lot and not much of a complainer (though you really wouldn’t blame him if he was!). Regularly tortur...

Christmas Carole
2022
Novel
Carole Mackay is an unashamedly outspoken and wealthy entrepreneur. Her online business selling all things festive has earned her a fortune, as well a...

A New Diva's Christmas Carol
2022
Novel
Aphrodite was made famous back in the day for performing THE timeless love song of the era. The song that everyone plays at their weddings, in every s...

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
2022
Book
It’s a cold Christmas Eve and mean-spirited miser Ebenezer Scrooge has an unexpected visit from the spirit of his former business partner Jacob Marley...

Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
2022
Novel
On a cold Christmas Eve, selfish miser Ebenezer Scrooge has one night left to face his past — and change the future — before time runs out.

The Prince of Rome
2022
Novel
In 19th-century Papal Rome, Bartolomeo is a wealthy and greedy parvenu who craves a noble title. While trying to raise the money he needs to strike a ...

Spirited
2022
Novel
Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the ...

National Theatre Live: Oliver Twist
2022
Book
Born into poverty and misfortune, Oliver Twist escapes the workhouse for a life of adventure where he joins Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their mischievou...

A Christmas Carol
2021
Novel
Businessman Ebenezer Scrooge’s sizable bank account is only matched by his disdain for the holidays. But one fateful Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited...

A Christmas Carol
2021
Novel
Three spirits have come to visit the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, and to take him on a fantastic journey through Christmases past, present, and future th...
Yellow River
2020
Novel
Behind the scenes at the original Fast and Furious afterparty, the mysterious death of Playboy model Felicia Tang haunts 2000s Hollywood. Testimony by...

A Christmas Carol
2020
Novel
The radical new take on Dickens’ classic seeks both to exhume the original story’s gritty commentary on social inequality and the corrupting influence...

Milwaukee Rep: A Christmas Carol
2020
Novel
Milwaukee Rep’s hit new adaptation is a tale of love, hope and redemption with just the right blend of beautiful music, lively dancing, stunning sets ...

Estella Scrooge
2020
Novel
Estella Scrooge is a Wall Street tycoon with a penchant for foreclosing. A hotelier in her hometown of Pickwick, Ohio has defaulted on his mortgage an...

A Christmas Carol
2020
Novel
The turkeys are hanging in the butchers shop on Gloucester Road, the Christmas Steps are decked with holly, but Christmas Eve is a bleak night for mis...
A LEGO Christmas Carol: A Brickfilm
2020
Novel
Based on the classic novel by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts to help him change his greedy way through the spirit of Chr...

Canto di Natale
2020
Novel
A modern version of Charles Dickens work. Gioele is a modern-day Scrooge, who hates Christmas but will end up changing his mind, also thanks to the lo...

FX's A Christmas Carol
2019
Novel
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts...

A Christmas Carol
2019
Novel
Ellen Scrooge, a demanding egocentric owner of a pharmaceutical company, adamantly continues to work her employees on Christmas Eve, but she is soo...

The Personal History of David Copperfield
2019
Novel
A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chron...

A Christmas Carol
2018
Novel
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

A Frozen Christmas Carol
2018
Novel
Hop on Santa's sleigh for a ride of a lifetime! This holiday season, Santa and his trusty sidekick, Lear the reindeer, tell the magical classic tale o...

The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
Novel
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, ...

A Christmas Carol
2015
Novel
When the miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge receives ghostly visitations one fateful Christmas Eve, he is shown the error of his ways.
The Signalman
2015
Original Story
A railroad signalman is haunted by a series of otherworldly events in this adaptation of a Charles Dickens short story. Are they truly ghostly manifes...

All American Christmas Carol
2013
Novel
A white-trash mom is visited by three ghosts intent on showing her a path to a brighter future.

Scrooge & Marley
2012
Novel
A modern day, queer variation on Charles Dickens' classic story of the holidays, "A Christmas Carol." On Christmas Eve, Ben Scrooge, the man who hates...

Great Expectations
2012
Novel
Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's Uncle Pumblechook to find a boy ...

It's Christmas, Carol!
2012
Novel
The story of driven, heartless, publishing executive, Carol Huffman, who on Christmas Eve is visited by the ghost of her former boss, Eve. Eve tells C...

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
2012
Novel
On the anniversary of Jacob Marley's death, his business partner Ebenezer Scrooge finds unwelcome company in the form of three spirits from Christmase...

The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol
2011
Novel
When Grouchy Smurf behaves badly to everyone and refuses to celebrate Christmas, the Smurfs of Christmas Past, Present and Future teach him to appreci...

A Christmas Carol
2009
Novel
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

David Copperfield
2009
Novel
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relations...

Barbie in 'A Christmas Carol'
2008
Novel
On Christmas Eve, Kelly is reluctant to go to a Christmas Eve ball, so Barbie tells her the story of Eden Starling, a glamorous singing diva in the Vi...

The Old Curiosity Shop
2007
Novel
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his...

Dombey and Son
2007
Novel
The dream of Charles Dombais, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, his wife dies shortly ...

The Carol Project
2006
Novel
A ghost story with timeless lessons of greed, love, loss and redemption.

A Sesame Street Christmas Carol
2006
Novel
Oscar the Grouch is visited by three ghosts in an attempt to teach him the true meaning of Christmas.

A Christmas Carol
2006
Novel
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his li...

Oliver Twist
2005
Novel
An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who a...

Christmas at Deejay's House: A Christmas Carol
2004
Novel
The cast of Radio Deejay reinterprets "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol
2004
Novel
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...
Boy Called Twist
2004
Novel
The harrowing tale of a South African street-kid's search for love, based on Dickens' classic story. Growing up neglected in a rural orphanage, Twist ...

VeggieTales: An Easter Carol
2004
Novel
Ebenezer Nezzer is out of control! He's trying to make Easter bigger than ever by filling London with plastic eggs! But just how hard can his mechanic...

Twist
2003
Novel
In a gritty retelling of the Dickens's classic, Twist takes Oliver and the Artful Dodger out of the poorhouse and onto the streets, where junk is the ...

Nicholas Nickleby
2002
Novel
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly...

David Copperfield
2001
Novel
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relations...

Cricket Behind the Hearth
2001
Novel
An almost detective story that could lead to terrible injustice. But good is strong, although sometimes naive. Wise Cricket will not allow "to go out ...

Christmas Carol: The Movie
2001
Novel
Animated version of the classic Charles Dickens story. Warned by the ghost of his old business partner Marley that his sins would lead to punishment i...

Scrooge and Marley
2001
Novel
Ebenezer Scrooge is back in a made-for-TV film produced by Coral Ridge Ministries. The ill-tempered miser is played by skilled Christian actor Dean Jo...

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
2001
Novel
A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle.

A Diva's Christmas Carol
2000
Novel
In this remake of Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol", a cold-hearted superstar singer gets a reality check when she meets three Christmas sp...

A Christmas Carol
2000
Novel
A modern version of the classic Dickens tale, in which Eddie Scrooge is a mean loan shark who sees the error of his ways.

A Christmas Carol
1999
Novel
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

The Chimes
1999
Writer
A claymation adaptation of "The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In". The Chimes was a short novel by Cha...

Great Expectations
1999
Novel
A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imag...

Ebenezer
1998
Novel
A Wild West retelling of Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol," with Scrooge as a land baron, gunfighter, and card cheat who is visited by three spirits who at...

Great Expectations
1998
Novel
Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and t...

A Christmas Carol
1997
Novel
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

Ms. Scrooge
1997
Novel
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She ha...

Oliver Twist
1997
Novel
Charles Dickens' classical story about the young orphan boy in 1837 England is again re-filmed in grand fashion. Richard Dreyfuss portrays Fagin, the ...

The Astors: High Society
1996
as Self (photo)
The very name conjures up images of the good life black tie affairs and high society balls. Yet their long saga proves that money is no guarantee of h...

Beavis and Butt-Head Do Christmas
1995
Novel
'Tis the season to be cool, as Beavis and Butt-Head star in their own twisted version of two holiday classics. The ghosts of Christmas past, present, ...

The Old Curiosity Shop
1995
Novel
1839. The young Nell Trent is leading a happy life with her grandfather in his curiosity shop. Wharf owner Daniel Quilp has given large amounts of mon...
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
1994
Novel
An abridged dramatic reading of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", performed live at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, and based on Dickens'...

A Christmas Carol
1994
Novel
A ballet version of the famous Dickens classic.

A Flintstones Christmas Carol
1994
Novel
Fred is cast as Ebenezer Scrooge in a stage adaption of the classic Christmas story, but is acting a bit stingy in real life.

A Christmas Carol
1994
Novel
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

David Copperfield
1993
Novel
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relations...

The Muppet Christmas Carol
1992
Novel
A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time vis...

Brer Rabbit's Christmas Carol
1992
Novel
When Brer Rabbit learns that Brer Fox is planning to evict Brer Bear on Christmas, he decides to teach the fox a lesson. Brer Rabbit gets the townspeo...

The Nutcracker: A Christmas Story
1992
Novel
The storm is really getting bad out there. Come on in and sit by the fire, enjoy the tree, make yourself a hot cup of Cocoa and enjoy the classic tale...

Scrooged
1988
Novel
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after fi...

Oliver & Company
1988
Novel
A young cat named Oliver is left alone in a kitten box, while all the other young cats have new owners. A big dog named Dodger shows him how to get fo...

Hard Times
1988
Novel
A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.
Pan Pickwick
1988
Novel

Little Dorrit
1987
Novel
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young sea...

Ghost Stories
1987
Novel
Charles Dickens' 'Ghost Stories' from the Pickwick Papers. The Ghost in the Wardrobe: A young law student moves into an old rooming house haunted by a...

The Adventures of Oliver Twist
1987
Novel
An animated adaptation of the Charles Dickens book.

Great Expectations: The Untold Story
1987
Writer
A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

Christmas
1986
Story
An adaptation of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol " with Robert Guillaume as John Grin, the Scrooge character. His son Kevin has a role as the Bob Cratchit...

The Pickwick Club
1986
Novel

Nicholas Nickleby
1985
Novel
One twenty-year old boy, driven by what is right and just, overcomes the forces of unconscionable greed. This classic tale of human nature is brought ...

Oliver Twist
1985
Novel
Adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol
1984
Writer
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his li...
Čarovná rybí kostička
1984
Novel

A Christmas Carol
1984
Novel
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

The Old Curiosity Shop
1984
Novel
The classic fictional tale of Little Nell and her grandfather, animated by Burbank Films Australia.

A Tale of Two Cities
1984
Novel
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment...

The Gospel According to Scrooge
1983
Novel
Closely follows the original with a twist of Ebenezer Scrooge making one choice that changes more than just his life. It was a fateful Christmas Eve t...

Mickey's Christmas Carol
1983
Novel
Ebenezer Scrooge is far too greedy to understand that Christmas is a time for kindness and generosity. But with the guidance of some new found friends...

David Copperfield
1983
Novel
The classic tale of David Copperfield's life is brought to the screen in this faithful and entertaining animated feature for your kids and family.

Great Expectations
1983
Novel
The classic tale of the helpless orphan Pip and his anonymous benefactor is brought to life in this high quality entertaining animated feature for you...

Oliver Twist
1982
Author
This animated version of the classic Charles Dickens book faithfully follows the adventures of the young orphan Oliver Twist.

A Christmas Carol
1982
Novel
In this timeless Charles Dickens Story, Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean, miserly merchant, lacking in any Christmas Spirit, receives ominous warnings from th...

A Vintage Detective Story
1982
Short Story
A two-part television play based on "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe and "Hunted Down" by Charles Dickens.

Oliver Twist
1982
Novel
The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.
A Christmas Carol
1981
Novel
Televised stage performance based on Charles Dickens' novella.

A Tale of Two Cities
1980
Novel
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1980
Novel
In Closterham, Edwin Drood and Rose Button confront his uncle John Jasper, the church choir regent, and Edwin fights Neville Landles, who is in love w...

A Christmas Carol at Ford's Theatre
1979
Novel
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his li...

Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol
1979
Novel
Charled Dicken's tale A Christmas Carol takes a contemporary jolt in this original musical set in modern-day Tennessee. Cyrus Flint is a mean old bank...

An American Christmas Carol
1979
Novel
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is vis...

The Stingiest Man in Town
1978
Novel
This cartoon version of A Christmas Carol hails from the production house of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass--the team that brought you just about ev...

Scrooge
1978
Novel
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his li...

Rich Little's Christmas Carol
1978
Novel
In this one-man show starring Rich Little, Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas, and it's up to the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future to convin...

A Christmas Carol
1977
Novel
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

The Signalman
1976
Short Story
A traveller comes across a signalman stationed by the exit of a railway tunnel in a deep cutting. The traveller becomes familiar with the signalman, a...

The Old Curiosity Shop
1975
Novel
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his...

Dombey & Son
1974
Writer
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly...

Oliver Twist
1974
Novel
In this animated version of Charles Dickens' classic novel, we see the story of young Oliver Twist, a boy orphaned at birth and left to grow up under ...

Great Expectations
1974
Novel
A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Příběh se starou lenoškou
1972
Short Story

Записки Пиквикского клуба
1972
Novel

A Christmas Carol
1971
Novel
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

Scrooge
1970
Novel
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.

Carry On Christmas
1969
Novel
Ebenezer Scrooge is a misery on Christmas, not allowing people money or doing anything to share Christmas cheer around his employees or acquaintances....

David Copperfield
1969
Novel
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relations...

Oliver!
1968
Novel
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys he...

Cricket on the Hearth
1967
Novel
A delightful, animated musical version of Charles Dickens' classic tale. A Cricket on the Hearth, tells the story of a poor toymaker and his daughter ...

Christmas Carole
1966
Novel
A moral fable, loosely based on Dickens.
Oliver Twist
1965
Novel
The fate of little Oliver, from life among the coffins, through a stay with the thief Fagin, to his fatal participation in a theft, which fortunately ...

Mr. Scrooge
1964
Novel
A Christmas Carol retelling

A Christmas Carol
1962
Novel
Opera version of the novella by Charles Dickens.

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
1962
Original Story
In this animated musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", Ebenezer Scrooge - via Mr. Magoo's starring performance in a stage productio...

Manik
1961
Novel
Manik is mentally and physically abused by the manager of the orphanage he lives in. However, when he runs away to Calcutta, he finds himself in deepe...
A Christmas Carol
1960
Novel
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his li...

A Christmas Carol
1959
Novel
Another version of the Dickens classic. Originally an episode of Fredric March Presents Tales from Dickens. Later released on home video on it's own...

A Tale of Two Cities
1958
Novel
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment...

The Stingiest Man in Town
1956
Novel
This is a musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Ebenezer Scrooge is given a chance to reform and save his soul. He is visited by 4 ...
Story of the Christmas Carol
1955
Novel
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his li...
The Merry Christmas
1955
Novel
Musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

An Orphan's Tragedy
1955
Original Story
Rascal To Chai-yan brings a false charge of selling fake medicine against doctor Fan Tin-sang, who is sentented to a twenty-year imprisonment. Fan mak...

A Christmas Carol
1954
Novel
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

It's Never Too Late
1953
Novel

The Pickwick Papers
1952
Novel
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...

Scrooge
1951
Novel
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show ...
A Christmas Carol
1950
Novel
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his li...

Oliver Twist
1948
Novel
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Esc...

A Christmas Carol
1947
Novel
A Christmas Carol

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1947
Novel
A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

Great Expectations
1946
Novel
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman....
A Christmas Carol
1943
Novel
An early experimental television broadcast of Dickens's famous novel.

A Christmas Carol
1940
Story
Based on the story by Charles Dickens. Filmed in Toledo, Ohio, U.S.A. Preserved by the Oesterreichisches Filmmsuem, Vienna and Temenos Archive, Zuric...

A Christmas Carol
1938
Novel
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

A Tale of Two Cities
1935
Novel
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment...

Scrooge
1935
Novel
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of h...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935
Novel
A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.

David Copperfield
1935
Novel
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relations...

The Old Curiosity Shop
1934
Novel
An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him. ...

Great Expectations
1934
Novel
A young boy, Pip, encounters an escaped prisoner, Magwitch, and steals food for him. After the convict is captured, Pip meets the reclusive Miss Havis...

Oliver Twist
1933
Novel
An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.

Rich Man's Folly
1931
Novel
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly...

Scrooge
1928
Novel
The miserly Scrooge changes his ways after being haunted by ghosts on Christmas Eve.

Little Dorrit
1924
Novel
Amy Dorrit – nicknamed Little Dorrit – was born in Marshalsea debtors prison, where her father has been incarcerated for a minor debt for the last 23 ...

David Copperfield
1922
Novel
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relations...

Oliver Twist
1922
Novel
Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring u...
Bleak House
1922
Novel
Part of serial Tense Moments from Great Plays.
Le grillon du foyer
1922
Novel

Great Expectations
1922
Novel
A charitable childhood deed holds fateful consequences for poor Pip. An anonymous benefactor paves the way for Pip’s transformation and subsequent soc...
A Tale of Two Cities
1922
Novel
The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick
1921
Novel
A club man's country jaunt with friends leads to a breach of promise suit by a landlady.

Our Mutual Friend
1921
Novel
A fisherman finds a corpse in a river, and he turns out to have been the victim of murder. The dead man is John Harmon, a millionaire’s son who was ju...

Little Dorrit
1920
Novel
A jailed debtor refuses to marry an heiress until she loses her fortune and he gains another. A roughly 20-minute condensation of the original British...

Bleak House
1920
Novel
'The story of Lady Dedlock's secret and the tragic consequences of its exposure.' (British Film Institute)
Oliver Twist
1919
Novel

Klein Doortje
1917
Novel

A Tale of Two Cities
1917
Novel
At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned former family servant. He is himself imprisoned and con...

Great Expectations
1917
Novel

The Right to Be Happy
1916
Story
Considered to be lost.

Oliver Twist
1916
Novel
An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their ...
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1914
Novel

A Christmas Carol
1914
Story
A miser is reformed by visions of past, present and future.
The Chimes
1914
Novel
The Adventure of the Shooting Party
1913
Novel
The lost 3rd part of the film The Pickwick Papers, directed by Laurence Trimble, appeared in 1913. This silent three-reel adaptation of Charles Dicken...

Scrooge
1913
Novel
A 1913 British black and white silent film based on the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It starred Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge....
Little Dorrit
1913
Novel
A short adaption of the novel by Charles Dickens.

The Virtue of Rags
1912
Novel
A grouchy landlord discharges a kind-hearted rent collector for failing to collect the rent from an impoverished widow. After dreaming that he himself...
Oliver Twist
1912
Novel
An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their ...
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers
1912
Story
A glimpse of the life of a few lodgers in a boarding house, focusing on the young couple Mr and Mrs Edison.

Oliver Twist
1912
Novel
An orphan in early 19th century England escapes the poorhouse only to fall among a gang of pickpockets in London.

Nicholas Nickleby
1912
Novel
With The Old Curiosity Shop and David Copperfield, both released in 1911, and Nicholas Nickleby in 1912, Thanhouser established itself as producer of ...

David Copperfield
1911
Novel
Thanhouser Company three-reel silent film based on Charles Dickens’s story of an English lad's tribulation-filled journey to adulthood, Thanhouser rel...

A Tale of Two Cities
1911
Novel
A condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.

The Old Curiosity Shop
1911
Story
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his...

A Christmas Carol
1910
Short Story
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

Oliver Twist
1909
Novel
Adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel.
The Boy and the Convict
1909
Novel
A boy helps a convict to escape after meeting him at his mother's graveyard. The convict gets rich in Australia and when he returns is arrested again ...

The Cricket on the Hearth
1909
Short Story
After three years at sea, Edward returns home to find his sweetheart forced into an engagement with a much older man.
A Christmas Carol
1908
Novel
Scrooge goes into his office and begins working. His nephew, along with three women who wish for Scrooge to donate enter. However, Scrooge dismisses t...

The Death of Poor Joe
1901
Book
A scene from Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost
1901
Novel
Filmed in 35mm and in black and white, this short silent film was produced by the English film pioneer R. W. Paul, and directed by Walter R. Booth and...
Fagin
N/A
Characters
The story behind how Fagin became the king of the pickpockets. Said to be a musical.

Humbugged
N/A
Characters
In a world of zany souls and colorful spirit-creatures, Jacob Marley is missing out on the party. His chaffey chains and lingering bitterness from wor...

A Christmas Cop
N/A
Novel
It's Christmas Eve in big city Chicago, and vigilante cop Nils Scroogesen is in no mood to celebrate -- and you can take that to the bank.
Oliver Twist
N/A
Novel
Disney's contemporary remake of 'Oliver Twist.'
Christmas on the North Pole Express
N/A
Novel
A woman named Cassidy rides a train to her small, home town, and explores her past, present, and future in different cars in the train.
A Christmas Carol
N/A
Novel
An old and evil businessman who doesn't believe in Christmas is haunted by three ghosts that show him the joy of Christmas.
Humbug
N/A
Novel
A contemporary telling of the story of Scrooge. When a wealthy real estate mogul will be visited by the three ghosts.
A Christmas Carol
N/A
Novel
A retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas ghost story.